Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1907 — THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE WEEKLY HISTORIAN

1171 —Henry 11. landed in Ireland and styled himself King of All Hibernia. > 1448 —Turks defeated the Hungarians at battle of Cossovo. 1520—Magellan discovered and entered , the strait which bears his name. • 1540 —De Soto and his force engaged in battle with the Mobile Indians in Alabama. 1582—The Gregorian calendar introduced. 1612—-Champlain arrived in Canada to •take np his- work as governor of the country. IG3o—First general court in America held at Boston. —,:^-~ -1634 —Massachusetts —Puritans limited suffrage to members of'the church. IGG8 —Jean Talon resigned his office as a Intendant of New r France. IG75 —Hatfield, Mass., repulsed an attack of Indians under King Philip. 1690 —Massachusetts invaders retired from before Quebec without making an attack....An English fleet from Massachusetts attacked IG92—British government took away William Penn’s proprietary rights in Pennsylvania. 1710—Port Royal, S. C., captured by an English fleet. 1725—First issue of the New York Ga- . zette, first newspaper in that city. 1746-—Bill introduced in the New York Assembly to raise money for the erection of Columbia college. 1775—Town of Falmouth (Portland), Maine, burned.... American troops captured Chambly, Quebec.,. .Peyton Randolph, first president of the Continental Congress, died. 1777 —Americans repulsed British attack on Fort Mercer, Red Bank, N. J. 17S1—Lord Cornwallis surrendered at York town, Va. 17S8—President Washington started on a tour oFthe iNol’tliuiu GULus, ~— 1793—Marie Antoinette guillotined. 1800 —Spain ceded the territory of 1 Louisiana to France. '"lßQ3—Congress assembled in extra session to act on the Louisiana Purchase .treaty. 1805 —Horatio Lord Nelson killed at the battle of Trafalgar. ... v" 1812- —American sloop Wasp defeated the British brig Frolic off the coast o' Virginia. 1813 — Napoleon defeated at the battle of Leipsic. 1826—The last “State Lottery" drawing held in England. 1828 —The Delaware and Chesapeake canal opened. 1831 —Arms’ bill passed for the repression of crime and insurrection in Ireland. 1834—British Parliament houses, Westminster, destroyed by fire. 1839 —Charles Edward Poulett Thomson succeeded Sir John Colborne as governor of Canada. 1842—First submarine telegraph in America laid between Governor’s Island and New York. 1845 Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, French tragedienne, born. 1846 — Nathan Clifford of Maine became Attorney General of United States. 1849 —Chopin, the great musical composer, died in Paris. 1852 Abd-el-Kaedir, deposed ruler of Algiers, released from his confinement by Louis Napoleon. 1853 — Filibusters, under Col. William Walker, sailed from San Francisco to establish a pro-slavery colony in lower California. 1856 —Seven persons killed in panic in London while Mr. Spurgeon was preaching. 1859 —Col. Robert E. Lee captured John Brown and his men at Harper’s Ferry. 18G1 —Col. Baker, friend of Lincoln, killed at battle of Balls Bluff... .Strat-ford-on-Avon purchased the birthplace of Shakspeare. 1863 Gen. Grant appointed to the command of the western armies. 1864 — Gen. Sheridan turned defeat Into victory at Cedar Creek. 1866 —Austria evacuated Lombardy. 1872 —Steamship Missouri burned at sea with loss of 87 lives. 1883 — Cetewayo, king of tbe Zulus, surrendered to the British. 1884 — Marquis of Laosdowne sworn in as governor general of‘Canada. 1889 —King Carlos of Portugal ascended the throne. > 1892 —World’s Columbian Exposition at Chicago formally dedicated. 1904 —Frederick Augustas 111., ascended the throne of Saxony.